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Intel and IBP put together a pretty sweet system. I haven't had a chance to try any games but I have WiC loading and I'll probably get Hawx, Crysis, and few other loaded up later. I'll get a some more pictures up once I have a little more time. I have my mom and sister staying with me over the weekend. Our study is also the guest bedroom which means I can't stay up late gaming. I don't know if I'll be able to stand it another night so I may have to move everything out to the dining room so I can get some gaming in.

BTW, now that you have an awesome gaming rig, can I have your old one?

I think I am going to be giving away my AMD setup to my sister. She is running a 6 year old HP mini-tower and in desperate need of a new computer.

very nice dude..I am wondering tho...the spec list(when the contest first started) said there was a GTX285 in there...kind of looks like you switched it out?

It is a 4890. Nate and I spoke about this and it was a spec mix up. It sounds like Intel has had some headaches with this contest. Intel and Nvidia aren't on the best terms right now so it would be weird for Intel to spec out a ton a high end Nvidia cards. It is still a killer system so I'm not going to complain. I have a 4870 so I am going to play around with a hybrid crossfire setup.

As many have mentioned the cable management is pretty poor so I'm going to be cleaning that up. One thing I have noticed is that this setup runs considerably warmer than my previous builds. You can feel the warm air coming from the back of the case even at idle. The CPU idles around 40-55. I did a quick run of CoreDamage and it got up to 77c and I turned it off. Right now they are using a single generic NZXT fan on the radiator. I am going to switch it out for two Noctua fans similar to what LR showed in their review on the corsair version of this cooler. I think I am going to install an aftermarket cooler on the 4890 for some killer overclocking there as well. 1Ghz here I come

x.clay wrote:As many have mentioned the cable management is pretty poor so I'm going to be cleaning that up. One thing I have noticed is that this setup runs considerably warmer than my previous builds. You can feel the warm air coming from the back of the case even at idle. The CPU idles around 40-55. I did a quick run of CoreDamage and it got up to 77c and I turned it off. Right now they are using a single generic NZXT fan on the radiator. I am going to switch it out for two Noctua fans similar to what LR showed in their review on the corsair version of this cooler. I think I am going to install an aftermarket cooler on the 4890 for some killer overclocking there as well. 1Ghz here I come

Looks like you know what you're doing. If you have any questions, just ask!

Good luck and Congrats once again on winning an awesome gaming rig! Most here would give their right arm to have your system.